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ample abundant aristocracy hereditary nobility; priveleged class circumspect prudent; cautious cliché phrase dulled in meaning by repetition condone overlook voluntarily; forgive consolidation unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger convention social or moral custom; established practice curtail shorten; reduce cynical skeptical or distrustful of human motives dawdle loiter; waste time demean degrade; humiliate denounce condemn; criticize detached emotionally removed; calm and objective; indifferent didactic teaching; instructional discernible distinguishable; perceivable disinterested unprejudiced disparage belittle disparate basically different; unrelated dispel scatter; cause to vanish divulge reveal docile obedient; easily managed doctrine teachings, in general; particular principle (religious, legal, etc.) taught eclipse darken; extinguish; surpass enigma puzzle; mystery enumerate list; mention one by one erratic odd; unpredictable esoteric hard to understand; known only to the chosen few espouse adopt; support esteem respect; value expedite hasten exploit deed or action, particularly a brave deed fallacious efalse; misleading farce broad comedy; mockery fastidious difficult to please; squeamish flippant lacking proper seriousness forthright outspoken; frank futile useless; hopeless; ineffectual garrulous loquacious; wordy; talkative gluttonous greedy for food gratify please gregarious sociable hamper obstruct heed pay attention to; consider iconoclastic attacking cherished traditions impede hinder; block; delay imperceptible unnoticeable; undetectable implacable incapable of being pacified inconsequential insignificant; unimportant indict charge industrious diligent; hard-working inept lacking skill; unsuited; incompetent ingenuous naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated ingrate ungrateful person inherent firmly established by nature or habit innate inborn innocuous harmless inscrutable impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious intricacy complexity; knottiness larceny theft meek quiet and obedient; spiritless misrepresent give a false or incorrect impression, usually intentionally outmoded no longer stylish; old-fashioned pacifist one opposed to force; antimilitarist paradox something apparently contradictory in nature; statement that looks false but is actually correct patronize support; act superior toward; be a customer of pedantic showing off learning; bookish perjury false testimony while under oath perpetual everlasting pervasive pervading; spread throughout every part petulant touchy; peevish phenomena observable facts or events philanthropist lover of mankind; doer of good potency power; effectiveness; influence pragmatic practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something premise assumption; postulate prevail triumph; predominate; prove superior in strength, power, or influence; be current proliferation rapid growth; spread; multiplication prolific abundantly fruitful provocative arousing anger or interest; annoying prudent cautious; careful recluse hermit; loner relinquish give up something with reluctance; yield repudiate disown; disavow resolution determination reticent reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to be silent reverent respectful; worshipful strategem deceptive scheme subdued less intense; quieter subversive tending to overthrow or destroy superfluous excessive; unnecessary synthesis combining parts into a whole taciturn habitually silent; talking little temperament characteristic frame of mind; disposition; emotional excess thwart baffle; frustrate trepidation fear; nervous apprehension urbane suave; refined; elegant utopia ideal place, state, or society vacillate waver; fluctuate vigor active strength volatile changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly